"Communication strategy of OA2020-DE: Open in order to transition"
Presentation delivered during the workshop
BEYOND APCS: ALTERNATIVE OPEN ACCESS PUBLISHING BUSINESS MODELS
Royal Library, The Hague, Netherlands
April 5th and 6th, 2018
10th OpenAIRE Content Providers Community CallOpenAIRE
The document discusses OpenAIRE's Usage Counts service, which tracks usage and collects COUNTER reports to provide analytics on the usage of research outputs. It introduces the new architecture and workflows that power the service, and shows examples of usage counts data in action for content providers and individual research items. Finally, it outlines the future plans for the service, including counting more research products, moving to the latest COUNTER standards, offering additional analytics, and building a Usage Counts Hub.
OpenAIRE Content Providers Community Call, November 4th, 2020
This call was focused on the PROVIDE future developments, functionalities wishlist and PROVIDE service in EOSC.
Was also an opportunity to share the most recent updates and novelties in the OpenAIRE Content Provider Dashboard, and to get feedback from community.
Recordings: https://youtu.be/wY4fOS767Us
Follow the Community activities at https://www.openaire.eu/provide-community-calls
OpenAIRE in the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC)OpenAIRE
Openness is the success factor for EOSC. OpenAIRE has been working in delivering an open access scholarly communication in Europe for the past 10 years and we now present how our work fits into the EOSC core developments
OpenAIRE Content Providers Community Call, October 7th, 2020
This call was focused on the OpenAIRE Broker Service, specifying how the service works to deploy the enrichment events to the Content Providers managers.
Was also an opportunity to share the most recent updates and novelties in the OpenAIRE Content Provider Dashboard, and to get feedback from community.
Recording: https://youtu.be/3sF4B58EGcs
Follow the Community activities at https://www.openaire.eu/provide-community-calls
OpenAIRE Content Providers Community Call, July 1st, 2020
This call was focused on Data Repositories namely the OpenAIRE Research Graph and Data Repositories, the OpenAIRE Content Acquisition Policy, and the Guidelines for Data Archive Managers.
Was also an opportunity to share the most recent updates and novelties in the OpenAIRE Content Provider Dashboard, and to get feedback from community.
Follow the Community activities at https://www.openaire.eu/provide-community-calls
Open Research Gateway for the ELIXIR-GR Infrastructure (Part 3)OpenAIRE
This document provides an overview of the Open Research Gateway for the ELIXIR-GR infrastructure. It discusses how the gateway acts as a single entry point to all research products from ELIXIR-GR, including publications, datasets, software, and more. Researchers can deposit and link their work through the gateway to practice open science. Statistics, reporting, and APIs are also available to monitor impact and advance open research. The team behind the gateway is working to improve customization and user guidance to better support the ELIXIR-GR community.
10th OpenAIRE Content Providers Community CallOpenAIRE
The document discusses OpenAIRE's Usage Counts service, which tracks usage and collects COUNTER reports to provide analytics on the usage of research outputs. It introduces the new architecture and workflows that power the service, and shows examples of usage counts data in action for content providers and individual research items. Finally, it outlines the future plans for the service, including counting more research products, moving to the latest COUNTER standards, offering additional analytics, and building a Usage Counts Hub.
OpenAIRE Content Providers Community Call, November 4th, 2020
This call was focused on the PROVIDE future developments, functionalities wishlist and PROVIDE service in EOSC.
Was also an opportunity to share the most recent updates and novelties in the OpenAIRE Content Provider Dashboard, and to get feedback from community.
Recordings: https://youtu.be/wY4fOS767Us
Follow the Community activities at https://www.openaire.eu/provide-community-calls
OpenAIRE in the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC)OpenAIRE
Openness is the success factor for EOSC. OpenAIRE has been working in delivering an open access scholarly communication in Europe for the past 10 years and we now present how our work fits into the EOSC core developments
OpenAIRE Content Providers Community Call, October 7th, 2020
This call was focused on the OpenAIRE Broker Service, specifying how the service works to deploy the enrichment events to the Content Providers managers.
Was also an opportunity to share the most recent updates and novelties in the OpenAIRE Content Provider Dashboard, and to get feedback from community.
Recording: https://youtu.be/3sF4B58EGcs
Follow the Community activities at https://www.openaire.eu/provide-community-calls
OpenAIRE Content Providers Community Call, July 1st, 2020
This call was focused on Data Repositories namely the OpenAIRE Research Graph and Data Repositories, the OpenAIRE Content Acquisition Policy, and the Guidelines for Data Archive Managers.
Was also an opportunity to share the most recent updates and novelties in the OpenAIRE Content Provider Dashboard, and to get feedback from community.
Follow the Community activities at https://www.openaire.eu/provide-community-calls
Open Research Gateway for the ELIXIR-GR Infrastructure (Part 3)OpenAIRE
This document provides an overview of the Open Research Gateway for the ELIXIR-GR infrastructure. It discusses how the gateway acts as a single entry point to all research products from ELIXIR-GR, including publications, datasets, software, and more. Researchers can deposit and link their work through the gateway to practice open science. Statistics, reporting, and APIs are also available to monitor impact and advance open research. The team behind the gateway is working to improve customization and user guidance to better support the ELIXIR-GR community.
Open Research Gateway for the ELIXIR-GR Infrastructure (Part 2)OpenAIRE
OpenAIRE is a European infrastructure that helps stakeholders comply with open access policies by providing tools and services. It operates repositories, dashboards, and tools to help share and reuse research outputs in accordance with FAIR principles. OpenAIRE also coordinates activities through national open access desks and outreach to promote open science practices. Researchers can use OpenAIRE to publish open access works, deposit data, write data management plans, and link research outputs.
Open Research Gateway for the ELIXIR-GR Infrastructure (Part 1)OpenAIRE
The Research Data Alliance (RDA) is an international organization focused on data sharing across disciplines. It has over 8,600 members from 137 countries working to reduce barriers to data sharing through developing infrastructure and community activities. RDA has numerous active interest groups and working groups focused on issues like specific scientific domains, data reference and sharing, community needs, data stewardship, and basic infrastructure. One recent focus is guidelines for data sharing during the COVID-19 pandemic.
1) A new version of the OpenAIRE Provide dashboard demo is available.
2) Several speakers shared use cases of the OpenAIRE Provide service, including from OpenstarTs, Serbian repositories, the University of Minho, and the Universidade Católica Portuguesa.
3) The agenda concluded with an invitation for comments and questions.
20200504_OpenAIRE Legal Policy Webinar: GDPR and Sharing DataOpenAIRE
Presentation by Jacques Flores Dourojeanni (Research Data Management Consultant Utrecht University Library), as delivered during the OpenAIRE Legal Policy Webinar series on May 4th 2020.
More information and recordings: https://www.openaire.eu/item/openaire-legal-policy-webinars
20200504_Research Data & the GDPR: How Open is Open?OpenAIRE
Presentation by Prodromos Tsiavos (Senior Legal Advisor - ARC/ Director - Onassis Group) as delivered during the OpenAIRE Legal Policy Webinar series on May 4th 2020.
More information and recordings: https://www.openaire.eu/item/openaire-legal-policy-webinars
20200504_Data, Data Ownership and Open ScienceOpenAIRE
Presentation by Thomas Margoni (Senior Lecturer in Intellectual Property and Internet Law, Co-director, CREATe, University of Glasgow) as delivered during the OpenAIRE Legal Policy Webinar series on May 4th 2020.
More information and recordings: https://www.openaire.eu/item/openaire-legal-policy-webinars
20200429_Research Data & the GDPR: How Open is Open? (updated version)OpenAIRE
This document discusses how the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) applies to scientific research. It defines key GDPR concepts, explains how scientific research is defined under the regulation, and discusses the legal bases and purposes that can justify data processing for research. It also addresses how data subject rights may be limited for research purposes, and analyzes several cases involving issues like data sharing, further processing of data, and handling of health and publicly available data in the context of research.
20200429_Data, Data Ownership and Open ScienceOpenAIRE
Presentation by Thomas Margoni (Senior Lecturer in Intellectual Property and Internet Law, Co-director, CREATe, University of Glasgow) as delivered during the OpenAIRE Legal Policy Webinar series on April 29th 2020.
More information and recordings: https://www.openaire.eu/item/openaire-legal-policy-webinars
20200429_OpenAIRE Legal Policy Webinar: GDPR and Sharing DataOpenAIRE
Presentation by Jacques Flores Dourojeanni (Research Data Management Consultant Utrecht University Library), as delivered during the OpenAIRE Legal Policy Webinar series on April 29th 2020.
More information and recordings: https://www.openaire.eu/item/openaire-legal-policy-webinars
COVID-19: Activities, tools, best practice and contact points in GreeceOpenAIRE
Presentation from the webinar organized by the Greek OpenAIRE and RDA Nodes (Athena RC) and Elixir-GR to inform participants of EU and national efforts, in collaboration with the following research organizations: Flemming, CERTH, HEAL-Link, Demokritos, Univ. of Athens (Medical School).
Presentation of the 2nd Content Providers Community Call, targeting the following topics: 1) OpenAIRE Content provider dashboard updates; Main topic: DSpace-CRIS for OpenAIRE: implementation of the CRIS guidelines and beyond; 3) Community questions & comments.
Presentation of the 2nd Content Providers Community Call, targeting the following topics: 1) OpenAIRE Content provider dashboard updates;
2) OpenAIRE aggregation and enrichment processes: specifications and good practices;
3) Community questions & comments.
Presentation of the 2nd Content Providers Community Call, targeting the following topics: 1) OpenAIRE infrastructure updates;
2) Main topic: OpenAIRE Broker Service;
3) Community questions & comments.
Presentation of the 2nd Content Providers Community Call, targeting the following topics: 1) OpenAIRE infrastructure updates;
2) Main topic: OpenAIRE Usage Statistics service: technical details and upcoming developments;
3) Community questions & comments.
Presentation of the 1st Content Providers Community Call, targeting the following topics:
1) OpenAIRE infrastructure updates;
2) Main topic: OpenAIRE Guidelines V4: specifications and implementation roadmap and use cases;
3) Community questions & comment.
The OpenAIRE Research Graph aims to provide an open metadata research graph of interlinked scientific products with open access information linked to funding and communities. It harvests data from various sources to populate a graph of over 340 million records, 12 million publications, and 960 million links. The graph brings scholarly communication back into researchers' hands by making metadata and resources complete, de-duplicated, transparent, participatory, decentralized, and trusted. OpenAIRE seeks feedback to improve the beta version and plans to launch the full research graph in Spring 2020.
Presenter: Prodromos Tsiavos
This OpenAIRE and EOSC-hub webinar covers Horizon 2020 rules and good practices approaches to addressing Open Data, Open Science and research results exploitation in Consortium Agreements and in Data Management Plans. It also specifically covers the issues of concern between Open Science and exploitation (patents, spin offs/ outs, confidentiality), business planning and licensing strategies.
Webinar page: https://www.openaire.eu/item/open-science-and-research-results-exploitation-friends-or-foes
This document summarizes OpenAIRE's approach to onboarding content providers to the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC). OpenAIRE provides guidelines for metadata, validation of content providers, and inclusive options to encourage participation. It engages with the community through support and working groups. The goal is to incentivize participation by adding value through services like aggregating and standardizing usage data.
OpenAIRE Open Innovation call: Next Generation RepositoriesOpenAIRE
1) Current institutional repositories have issues with usability, interoperability, and acting primarily as silos for individual institutions' data.
2) The vision for next generation repositories is to position them as part of a globally networked infrastructure for scholarly communication, with the resources themselves, rather than the repositories, becoming the focus of services.
3) Key areas discussed for next generation repositories include improved resource discovery and content transfer using ResourceSync and Signposting, generating open usage metrics through a usage hub, and enabling annotation of content through web annotation protocols.
ESPP presentation to EU Waste Water Network, 4th June 2024 “EU policies driving nutrient removal and recycling
and the revised UWWTD (Urban Waste Water Treatment Directive)”
Open Research Gateway for the ELIXIR-GR Infrastructure (Part 2)OpenAIRE
OpenAIRE is a European infrastructure that helps stakeholders comply with open access policies by providing tools and services. It operates repositories, dashboards, and tools to help share and reuse research outputs in accordance with FAIR principles. OpenAIRE also coordinates activities through national open access desks and outreach to promote open science practices. Researchers can use OpenAIRE to publish open access works, deposit data, write data management plans, and link research outputs.
Open Research Gateway for the ELIXIR-GR Infrastructure (Part 1)OpenAIRE
The Research Data Alliance (RDA) is an international organization focused on data sharing across disciplines. It has over 8,600 members from 137 countries working to reduce barriers to data sharing through developing infrastructure and community activities. RDA has numerous active interest groups and working groups focused on issues like specific scientific domains, data reference and sharing, community needs, data stewardship, and basic infrastructure. One recent focus is guidelines for data sharing during the COVID-19 pandemic.
1) A new version of the OpenAIRE Provide dashboard demo is available.
2) Several speakers shared use cases of the OpenAIRE Provide service, including from OpenstarTs, Serbian repositories, the University of Minho, and the Universidade Católica Portuguesa.
3) The agenda concluded with an invitation for comments and questions.
20200504_OpenAIRE Legal Policy Webinar: GDPR and Sharing DataOpenAIRE
Presentation by Jacques Flores Dourojeanni (Research Data Management Consultant Utrecht University Library), as delivered during the OpenAIRE Legal Policy Webinar series on May 4th 2020.
More information and recordings: https://www.openaire.eu/item/openaire-legal-policy-webinars
20200504_Research Data & the GDPR: How Open is Open?OpenAIRE
Presentation by Prodromos Tsiavos (Senior Legal Advisor - ARC/ Director - Onassis Group) as delivered during the OpenAIRE Legal Policy Webinar series on May 4th 2020.
More information and recordings: https://www.openaire.eu/item/openaire-legal-policy-webinars
20200504_Data, Data Ownership and Open ScienceOpenAIRE
Presentation by Thomas Margoni (Senior Lecturer in Intellectual Property and Internet Law, Co-director, CREATe, University of Glasgow) as delivered during the OpenAIRE Legal Policy Webinar series on May 4th 2020.
More information and recordings: https://www.openaire.eu/item/openaire-legal-policy-webinars
20200429_Research Data & the GDPR: How Open is Open? (updated version)OpenAIRE
This document discusses how the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) applies to scientific research. It defines key GDPR concepts, explains how scientific research is defined under the regulation, and discusses the legal bases and purposes that can justify data processing for research. It also addresses how data subject rights may be limited for research purposes, and analyzes several cases involving issues like data sharing, further processing of data, and handling of health and publicly available data in the context of research.
20200429_Data, Data Ownership and Open ScienceOpenAIRE
Presentation by Thomas Margoni (Senior Lecturer in Intellectual Property and Internet Law, Co-director, CREATe, University of Glasgow) as delivered during the OpenAIRE Legal Policy Webinar series on April 29th 2020.
More information and recordings: https://www.openaire.eu/item/openaire-legal-policy-webinars
20200429_OpenAIRE Legal Policy Webinar: GDPR and Sharing DataOpenAIRE
Presentation by Jacques Flores Dourojeanni (Research Data Management Consultant Utrecht University Library), as delivered during the OpenAIRE Legal Policy Webinar series on April 29th 2020.
More information and recordings: https://www.openaire.eu/item/openaire-legal-policy-webinars
COVID-19: Activities, tools, best practice and contact points in GreeceOpenAIRE
Presentation from the webinar organized by the Greek OpenAIRE and RDA Nodes (Athena RC) and Elixir-GR to inform participants of EU and national efforts, in collaboration with the following research organizations: Flemming, CERTH, HEAL-Link, Demokritos, Univ. of Athens (Medical School).
Presentation of the 2nd Content Providers Community Call, targeting the following topics: 1) OpenAIRE Content provider dashboard updates; Main topic: DSpace-CRIS for OpenAIRE: implementation of the CRIS guidelines and beyond; 3) Community questions & comments.
Presentation of the 2nd Content Providers Community Call, targeting the following topics: 1) OpenAIRE Content provider dashboard updates;
2) OpenAIRE aggregation and enrichment processes: specifications and good practices;
3) Community questions & comments.
Presentation of the 2nd Content Providers Community Call, targeting the following topics: 1) OpenAIRE infrastructure updates;
2) Main topic: OpenAIRE Broker Service;
3) Community questions & comments.
Presentation of the 2nd Content Providers Community Call, targeting the following topics: 1) OpenAIRE infrastructure updates;
2) Main topic: OpenAIRE Usage Statistics service: technical details and upcoming developments;
3) Community questions & comments.
Presentation of the 1st Content Providers Community Call, targeting the following topics:
1) OpenAIRE infrastructure updates;
2) Main topic: OpenAIRE Guidelines V4: specifications and implementation roadmap and use cases;
3) Community questions & comment.
The OpenAIRE Research Graph aims to provide an open metadata research graph of interlinked scientific products with open access information linked to funding and communities. It harvests data from various sources to populate a graph of over 340 million records, 12 million publications, and 960 million links. The graph brings scholarly communication back into researchers' hands by making metadata and resources complete, de-duplicated, transparent, participatory, decentralized, and trusted. OpenAIRE seeks feedback to improve the beta version and plans to launch the full research graph in Spring 2020.
Presenter: Prodromos Tsiavos
This OpenAIRE and EOSC-hub webinar covers Horizon 2020 rules and good practices approaches to addressing Open Data, Open Science and research results exploitation in Consortium Agreements and in Data Management Plans. It also specifically covers the issues of concern between Open Science and exploitation (patents, spin offs/ outs, confidentiality), business planning and licensing strategies.
Webinar page: https://www.openaire.eu/item/open-science-and-research-results-exploitation-friends-or-foes
This document summarizes OpenAIRE's approach to onboarding content providers to the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC). OpenAIRE provides guidelines for metadata, validation of content providers, and inclusive options to encourage participation. It engages with the community through support and working groups. The goal is to incentivize participation by adding value through services like aggregating and standardizing usage data.
OpenAIRE Open Innovation call: Next Generation RepositoriesOpenAIRE
1) Current institutional repositories have issues with usability, interoperability, and acting primarily as silos for individual institutions' data.
2) The vision for next generation repositories is to position them as part of a globally networked infrastructure for scholarly communication, with the resources themselves, rather than the repositories, becoming the focus of services.
3) Key areas discussed for next generation repositories include improved resource discovery and content transfer using ResourceSync and Signposting, generating open usage metrics through a usage hub, and enabling annotation of content through web annotation protocols.
ESPP presentation to EU Waste Water Network, 4th June 2024 “EU policies driving nutrient removal and recycling
and the revised UWWTD (Urban Waste Water Treatment Directive)”
Remote Sensing and Computational, Evolutionary, Supercomputing, and Intellige...University of Maribor
Slides from talk:
Aleš Zamuda: Remote Sensing and Computational, Evolutionary, Supercomputing, and Intelligent Systems.
11th International Conference on Electrical, Electronics and Computer Engineering (IcETRAN), Niš, 3-6 June 2024
Inter-Society Networking Panel GRSS/MTT-S/CIS Panel Session: Promoting Connection and Cooperation
https://www.etran.rs/2024/en/home-english/
Describing and Interpreting an Immersive Learning Case with the Immersion Cub...Leonel Morgado
Current descriptions of immersive learning cases are often difficult or impossible to compare. This is due to a myriad of different options on what details to include, which aspects are relevant, and on the descriptive approaches employed. Also, these aspects often combine very specific details with more general guidelines or indicate intents and rationales without clarifying their implementation. In this paper we provide a method to describe immersive learning cases that is structured to enable comparisons, yet flexible enough to allow researchers and practitioners to decide which aspects to include. This method leverages a taxonomy that classifies educational aspects at three levels (uses, practices, and strategies) and then utilizes two frameworks, the Immersive Learning Brain and the Immersion Cube, to enable a structured description and interpretation of immersive learning cases. The method is then demonstrated on a published immersive learning case on training for wind turbine maintenance using virtual reality. Applying the method results in a structured artifact, the Immersive Learning Case Sheet, that tags the case with its proximal uses, practices, and strategies, and refines the free text case description to ensure that matching details are included. This contribution is thus a case description method in support of future comparative research of immersive learning cases. We then discuss how the resulting description and interpretation can be leveraged to change immersion learning cases, by enriching them (considering low-effort changes or additions) or innovating (exploring more challenging avenues of transformation). The method holds significant promise to support better-grounded research in immersive learning.
Authoring a personal GPT for your research and practice: How we created the Q...Leonel Morgado
Thematic analysis in qualitative research is a time-consuming and systematic task, typically done using teams. Team members must ground their activities on common understandings of the major concepts underlying the thematic analysis, and define criteria for its development. However, conceptual misunderstandings, equivocations, and lack of adherence to criteria are challenges to the quality and speed of this process. Given the distributed and uncertain nature of this process, we wondered if the tasks in thematic analysis could be supported by readily available artificial intelligence chatbots. Our early efforts point to potential benefits: not just saving time in the coding process but better adherence to criteria and grounding, by increasing triangulation between humans and artificial intelligence. This tutorial will provide a description and demonstration of the process we followed, as two academic researchers, to develop a custom ChatGPT to assist with qualitative coding in the thematic data analysis process of immersive learning accounts in a survey of the academic literature: QUAL-E Immersive Learning Thematic Analysis Helper. In the hands-on time, participants will try out QUAL-E and develop their ideas for their own qualitative coding ChatGPT. Participants that have the paid ChatGPT Plus subscription can create a draft of their assistants. The organizers will provide course materials and slide deck that participants will be able to utilize to continue development of their custom GPT. The paid subscription to ChatGPT Plus is not required to participate in this workshop, just for trying out personal GPTs during it.
hematic appreciation test is a psychological assessment tool used to measure an individual's appreciation and understanding of specific themes or topics. This test helps to evaluate an individual's ability to connect different ideas and concepts within a given theme, as well as their overall comprehension and interpretation skills. The results of the test can provide valuable insights into an individual's cognitive abilities, creativity, and critical thinking skills
The use of Nauplii and metanauplii artemia in aquaculture (brine shrimp).pptxMAGOTI ERNEST
Although Artemia has been known to man for centuries, its use as a food for the culture of larval organisms apparently began only in the 1930s, when several investigators found that it made an excellent food for newly hatched fish larvae (Litvinenko et al., 2023). As aquaculture developed in the 1960s and ‘70s, the use of Artemia also became more widespread, due both to its convenience and to its nutritional value for larval organisms (Arenas-Pardo et al., 2024). The fact that Artemia dormant cysts can be stored for long periods in cans, and then used as an off-the-shelf food requiring only 24 h of incubation makes them the most convenient, least labor-intensive, live food available for aquaculture (Sorgeloos & Roubach, 2021). The nutritional value of Artemia, especially for marine organisms, is not constant, but varies both geographically and temporally. During the last decade, however, both the causes of Artemia nutritional variability and methods to improve poorquality Artemia have been identified (Loufi et al., 2024).
Brine shrimp (Artemia spp.) are used in marine aquaculture worldwide. Annually, more than 2,000 metric tons of dry cysts are used for cultivation of fish, crustacean, and shellfish larva. Brine shrimp are important to aquaculture because newly hatched brine shrimp nauplii (larvae) provide a food source for many fish fry (Mozanzadeh et al., 2021). Culture and harvesting of brine shrimp eggs represents another aspect of the aquaculture industry. Nauplii and metanauplii of Artemia, commonly known as brine shrimp, play a crucial role in aquaculture due to their nutritional value and suitability as live feed for many aquatic species, particularly in larval stages (Sorgeloos & Roubach, 2021).
Travis Hills' Endeavors in Minnesota: Fostering Environmental and Economic Pr...Travis Hills MN
Travis Hills of Minnesota developed a method to convert waste into high-value dry fertilizer, significantly enriching soil quality. By providing farmers with a valuable resource derived from waste, Travis Hills helps enhance farm profitability while promoting environmental stewardship. Travis Hills' sustainable practices lead to cost savings and increased revenue for farmers by improving resource efficiency and reducing waste.
Current Ms word generated power point presentation covers major details about the micronuclei test. It's significance and assays to conduct it. It is used to detect the micronuclei formation inside the cells of nearly every multicellular organism. It's formation takes place during chromosomal sepration at metaphase.
The ability to recreate computational results with minimal effort and actionable metrics provides a solid foundation for scientific research and software development. When people can replicate an analysis at the touch of a button using open-source software, open data, and methods to assess and compare proposals, it significantly eases verification of results, engagement with a diverse range of contributors, and progress. However, we have yet to fully achieve this; there are still many sociotechnical frictions.
Inspired by David Donoho's vision, this talk aims to revisit the three crucial pillars of frictionless reproducibility (data sharing, code sharing, and competitive challenges) with the perspective of deep software variability.
Our observation is that multiple layers — hardware, operating systems, third-party libraries, software versions, input data, compile-time options, and parameters — are subject to variability that exacerbates frictions but is also essential for achieving robust, generalizable results and fostering innovation. I will first review the literature, providing evidence of how the complex variability interactions across these layers affect qualitative and quantitative software properties, thereby complicating the reproduction and replication of scientific studies in various fields.
I will then present some software engineering and AI techniques that can support the strategic exploration of variability spaces. These include the use of abstractions and models (e.g., feature models), sampling strategies (e.g., uniform, random), cost-effective measurements (e.g., incremental build of software configurations), and dimensionality reduction methods (e.g., transfer learning, feature selection, software debloating).
I will finally argue that deep variability is both the problem and solution of frictionless reproducibility, calling the software science community to develop new methods and tools to manage variability and foster reproducibility in software systems.
Exposé invité Journées Nationales du GDR GPL 2024
The technology uses reclaimed CO₂ as the dyeing medium in a closed loop process. When pressurized, CO₂ becomes supercritical (SC-CO₂). In this state CO₂ has a very high solvent power, allowing the dye to dissolve easily.
When I was asked to give a companion lecture in support of ‘The Philosophy of Science’ (https://shorturl.at/4pUXz) I decided not to walk through the detail of the many methodologies in order of use. Instead, I chose to employ a long standing, and ongoing, scientific development as an exemplar. And so, I chose the ever evolving story of Thermodynamics as a scientific investigation at its best.
Conducted over a period of >200 years, Thermodynamics R&D, and application, benefitted from the highest levels of professionalism, collaboration, and technical thoroughness. New layers of application, methodology, and practice were made possible by the progressive advance of technology. In turn, this has seen measurement and modelling accuracy continually improved at a micro and macro level.
Perhaps most importantly, Thermodynamics rapidly became a primary tool in the advance of applied science/engineering/technology, spanning micro-tech, to aerospace and cosmology. I can think of no better a story to illustrate the breadth of scientific methodologies and applications at their best.